Sam Honeycutt

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Hitler’s “counter-attack” on Poland has on this Sabbath day become a world war! To record the date: September 3, 1939. The time: eleven a.m. At nine o’clock this morning Sir Nevile Henderson called on the German Foreign Minister and handed him a note giving Germany until eleven o’clock to accept the British demand that Germany withdraw her troops from Poland. He returned to the Wilhelmstrasse shortly after eleven and was handed the German reply in the form of a memorandum. The extras are out on the streets now. The newsboys are giving them away. The D.A.Z. here. Its headlines: BRITISH ...more
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
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